Updated Legendary Ring Procs, Tanaan Jungle, Blizzcon 2015 Tickets Sold Out - Batch 1

[chaud]

Updated Legendary Ring Procs
Blizzard posted updated versions of the legendary ring procs tonight! Keep in mind that these are still not final.

Follower Upgrades Won't Become Bind on Account
It looks like you don't need to hold on to those follower upgrade items in hopes that they will one day be usable on your alts.

Tanaan Jungle Video
Lots of work has been done on Tanaan Jungle, including the addition of

Supreme Lord Kazzak

! Here is a peek at what lies in store for you in Patch 6.2.

Patch 6.2 PTR Patch Notes - April 15

World Environment and Events

Darkmoon Faire

• New Achievement: Whack-a-gnoll has a new achievement that awards a battle pet, Hogs.

PvP

• Level 100 characters engaging in PvP combat now have the following gear changes.
  
  • All Non-PvP gear between item levels 560 and 690 will now scale up to 690 in PvP combat.
  • PvP gear above item level 715 Remains unaffected and will not be capped in PvP combat.

Collections
Pet Battles

• Break out your traps and Safari Hat, new wild pets have been spotted in Tanaan Jungle and a few other places!
• Fel-corrupted legendary pets have been spotted in Tanaan Jungle! Each pet can be defeated once per day for a bag of Fel-Touched Pet Supplies, which can contain pet charms, Battle-Training stones to increase a battle pet's level, and even rare pets.
• Expert Pet Trappers Giada Goldleash and Tiffy Trapspring have shown up at the Pet Menagerie with a variety of pets and toys for sale for Pet Charms.

Items

• Sinister Spores now reduces healing taken by 50% (down from 90%).
• Super Sticky Glitter Bomb's effect can now be dispelled and lasts for 15 seconds (down from 30 seconds).

Classes

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Blackout Kick now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now deals 5% less damage.
• Tiger Palm now deals 5% 30% less damage.

Brewmaster

• Stance of the Sturdy Ox now increases armor by 125% (up from 75%) and provides a 20% 10% base Stagger percentage. Additionally, the Stagger effect no longer works against attacks which ignore armor.

Windwalker

• Fists of Fury now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Hurricane Strike now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Tigereye Brew now increases damage dealt by 10% per charge consumed (up from 6%).

Talents

• Chi Explosion now deals 5% 30% less damage for Windwalker Monks.

Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Holy

• Devotion Aura now reduces all damage taken, not just magical damage.

Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Shadow

• Mastery: Mental Anguish has been reduced in effectiveness by 10%.
• Devouring Plague now deals 12% less damage.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Pickpocketing

• New items have been added to pickpocket from humanoids in Tanaan Jungle.
• Added a new weekly quest, Da Even Bigga Score.
• Dingy Iron Coins now have a cap of 20,000 (up from 10,000).
• Secretive Whistle now has a 15 minute cooldown (down from 1 hour).
• Updated tooltip descriptions for pickpocketed items of value to help distinguish them from other items.

Assassination

• Envenom now deals 30% 10% more damage.
• Mutilate now deals 30% 10% more damage.

Combat

• Killing Spree now only grants immunity to root and snare effects and no longer prevents the Rogue from being targeted or grant immunity from crowd-control ffects. Additionally, the effect is now cancelled if the Rogue is affected by other crowd-control effects. crowd-controlled.

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Dark Soul should now have its cooldown reset at the end of a raid encounter for all Warlock specializations

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
General

• Defensive Stance now decreases damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).

Protection

• Improved Defensive Stance now also decreases damage taken by 5%.

Blizzcon 2015 Tickets on Sale in 1 Hour
Blizzcon 2015 Tickets go on sale tonight at 7 PM PDT / 10 PM EDT on Eventbrite. This year they will cost $199 plus taxes and fees for the November 6th - 7th event in Anaheim. If you aren't sure who is going, you have until August 14 to change the name and email addresses of attendees.

BlizzCon 2015 Ticket Purchasing Guide

The first batch of BlizzCon 2015 tickets goes on sale Wednesday, April 15 at 7 p.m. PT. When the time comes, hit the link below for your chance to snag some.

Get BlizzCon 2015 Tickets Here

Tickets usually go fast, so if you want to attend this year’s show, it pays to be prepared. Ticket sales are once again being handled through Eventbrite this year, and a few things are different from 2014. It’s worth reading our BlizzCon Ticket Info page to get an overview, but if you want more details on how it works, check out this handy guide.

What Information You’ll Need to Provide
You’ll want to have the following information handy when you’re buying BlizzCon tickets:

• Your information: First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Character name (optional)
• Credit card information, including billing information (Country, Address, City, State, Zip Code)
• Your friends’/family’s information: First Name, Last Name, Email Address, Character Name (optional)—note that you’ll be able to go back and change these until August 14.

What’s New for 2015
A few changes are in store for ticket buyers this year, including updates to how tickets are delivered based on BlizzCon 2014 feedback, as well as some changes to the Eventbrite purchasing process.

Barcodes Delivered Immediately—This year, ticket buyers and attendees will receive the bar-code emails used to claim their badges immediately after purchasing tickets. In addition, bar codes will be accessible via the ticket purchaser’s Eventbrite account, where they’ll be available to view or reprint at any time. Buyers should note that bar code emails will also be sent to whoever you assign your tickets to, so if you’re not yet certain who’s coming, you might want to assign tickets to your own email address for now. (You’ll have until August 14 to make attendee changes.)

Eventbrite Updates—Eventbrite has made some updates to their waiting room that should help make the experience smoother for BlizzCon hopefuls. This year, people in the waiting room will no longer be sent back to the event page if their turn comes up but the number of tickets they requested is not available. Instead, they’ll remain in the waiting room and retain their position in line until another order for the quantity of tickets they requested is released back for sale. For example, if you requested 4 tickets and reach the front of the line, the next time an order for 4 tickets is released, you’ll have first dibs. (Keep in mind this also means you won’t be able to select a different, lower ticket quantity if you reach the front of the line and the ticket quantity you requested isn’t available.)

Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Head to the Eventbrite ticketing page, and choose the quantity of tickets you wish to purchase from the drop-down menu (4 ticket per household limit).

*UPDATED FOR 2015*
Step 2: Click Order Now. If all tickets have been claimed, buyers may find themselves in line in a “waiting room” while others complete their purchases—see the “What’s New for 2015” section above for more details. Keep in mind that being in the waiting room doesn’t necessarily mean you’re guaranteed tickets.

Step 3: Once you’re in the checkout and registration process, you’ll have 8 minutes to complete your purchase. A countdown will be displayed on-screen so you know how much time you have remaining. After 8 minutes, the tickets will be released for others to buy, drawing from those in the waiting room.

Step 4: Fill out the Ticket Buyer information (your name and email) to purchase the tickets. Make sure you enter a valid email address that you use regularly, as important event communications (including your badges) will be emailed to this address.

Step 5: Enter your credit card information. Remember, you will need to have this card at the convention if you need to make changes on-site. See the Badge Information page for more information.

Step 6: Enter your name and email address for the first ticket (or your friend/family member’s information if you’re purchasing a ticket for someone other than yourself), and character name (optional). If you don’t have that information now, just enter your own name and email for now—you’ll have until August 14 to make changes.

*NEW FOR 2015* When entering attendee names and emails here and in Step 9, keep in mind that tickets will be sent to both the purchaser’s email address as well as the email addresses assigned to each ticket immediately upon completing your purchase.

Step 7: Check the box to agree to the waiver. If you do not agree, you cannot proceed with purchasing BlizzCon tickets. Remember there is a 4-ticket-per-household limit for General Admission BlizzCon tickets.

Step 8: Enter your friends’ or family members’ name and email address for each additional ticket. Again, you’ll have until August 14 to make changes, so just enter your own for now if you need to sort out who’s attending later.

If you do not have that information at the time of purchase, use the drop-down menu to auto-fill the ticket with your own name and email address—or, you can manually enter your own information. Remember you need to do this separately for each additional ticket you’ll be purchasing.

Step 9: You will need to agree to the waiver for each additional ticket you’re purchasing.

Step 10: Once you’ve entered everything, click Pay Now.

Once you click Pay Now, you will be sent to a “processing order” page. Once your order is complete, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Eventbrite—be sure to check your Spam folder if you don’t see it.

*NEW FOR 2015* Emails containing bar codes to claim badges will be sent immediately upon purchase. All tickets will be sent to both the purchaser’s email address as well as the email address assigned to a ticket.

Congratulations! You have successfully purchased tickets to BlizzCon 2015!

[TheMediator]

Interesting ring effect. I'm not really looking forward to some idiot in LFR blowing your own shared 2 minute cooldown by popping it during transitions etc, but I guess that's a niche case. In any event, a much better ring re-design. Put some emphasis back on role leads making decisions.

Edit: I skimmed the rings initially, I didn't see the 'on expiration' effect of the DPS/Heal rings and the tank soul link effect. Holey moley that's stronk.

[gdr441]

Why won't they make the follower upgrades boa...so stupid... :-/

[moveth]

And this ring proc is no better than the previous version. Lol. Still screws over people without the ring (I have 5 completed rings, so that doesn't include me) AND it allows ONE person to screw over other people by popping the rings when it isnt needed / not wanted. LOL. This should be fun to watch in pugs.

OH YEAH. Forgot to add. A SHARED TANK CD. LOL. Go away, Blizzard.

[Kaelix]

Interesting change to the rings... wonder how long that will last.

Also, what's the music used in the preview video?

[chaud]

Also, what's the music used in the preview video?

Ivan Torrent - The Dark One

[Redblade]

So raiding will now become "Unique ring or GTFO"...

[Snorri]

Pretty sure these new ring effects will not last very long either. It's going to promote ring stacking.

[Mormolyce]

It's basically a mini lust. Kind of a cool idea IMO.

And this ring proc is no better than the previous version. Lol. Still screws over people without the ring (I have 5 completed rings, so that doesn't include me) AND it allows ONE person to screw over other people by popping the rings when it isnt needed / not wanted.

"Screws over people without it"... welcome to legendaries?

[TheMediator]

And this ring proc is no better than the previous version. Lol. Still screws over people without the ring (I have 5 completed rings, so that doesn't include me) AND it allows ONE person to screw over other people by popping the rings when it isnt needed / not wanted. LOL. This should be fun to watch in pugs.

OH YEAH. Forgot to add. A SHARED TANK CD. LOL. Go away, Blizzard.

Dude. It is a legendary. It should feel legendary. The last legendaries were like a 7% sustained DPS increase as well.

The shared tank CD is cool, you should have tank bro synergy. My only gripe is like, I can't see myself ever tanking with a co-tank that doesn't have the ring. Just straight up garbage to lose that CD if the other tank doesn't have the ring.

Pretty sure these new ring effects will not last very long either. It's going to promote ring stacking.

Not substantially different than "ilvl 680 or gtfo". This is an RPG, gear matters.

[Socialhealer]

So raiding will now become "Unique ring or GTFO"...

nothing different from the cloak, don't have it? ok you're doing about 8% less dps than someone who does, the ring will probably be 8-10% of your dps as well.

but it was worse, since it was cloak AND legendary meta which was probably more like 15% dps missing without both.

[Deleted]

Tank one seems pretty bad. Don't like the idea of a shared cooldown and the concept of sharing like that seems pretty silly.

DPS and healer one seems very cool.

[Deleted]

Sounds like it has potential for some real annoyance since people have different cooldowns on the abilities they'd like to sync it with, and of course anyone in a pug or whatever can pop the ring whenever they want and screw everyone else.

As a concrete example, a Fury warrior with Anger Management has an effective Recklessness cooldown that is a bit over 2 minutes so you'd want to hold it off, but many other classes have cooldowns that are just 2 minutes flat.

[Teebone]

Ivan Torrent - The Dark One

Not a bad choice. More of a two steps from hell person myself:



That tune just screams 'boss encounter'.

[TheMediator]

Sounds like it has potential for some real annoyance since people have different cooldowns on the abilities they'd like to sync it with, and of course anyone in a pug or whatever can pop the ring whenever they want and screw everyone else.

As a concrete example, a Fury warrior with Anger Management has an effective Recklessness cooldown that is a bit over 2 minutes so you'd want to hold it off, but many other classes have cooldowns that are just 2 minutes flat.

People can already do the same with bloodlust.

[ablib]

It's rare to have a video game video on YouTube that doesn't have un-godly horrid music.

The preview video was awesome, but sad that I won't get to see it (no flying). What's that? You don't need flying to see 100% of the zone? To see how cool it looks? Then why is it that every one of these videos are never done from a ground only viewpoint? Because that wouldn't look as cool as zooming in from the sky.

[Deleted]

People can already do the same with bloodlust.

Yes but BL doesn't have the cooldown syncing problem since most encounters only give you one. With a 2m cooldown your raid wants it used immediately on cooldown to get as many uses and overall benefit as possible, even if it leads to some specs having their cooldowns not line up. Also, BL is only available to mages and shamans, anyone can pop these rings.

[Adrim]

Lol, I love that ring proc. Can you imagine the scumbag dps on an ad fight? Hilarious.

[Maelstrom51]

The new ring makes me not want to upgrade mine. Not very legendary to have other people completely control your dps.

[Redblade]

Not substantially different than "ilvl 680 or gtfo". This is an RPG, gear matters.

nothing different from the cloak, don't have it? ok you're doing about 8% less dps than someone who does, the ring will probably be 8-10% of your dps as well.

but it was worse, since it was cloak AND legendary meta which was probably more like 15% dps missing without both.

You can list a thousand things that resembles it, still won't make it a good design.